Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael:
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from February 20, 2015

Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Dance away the crazy with a radio party, every Friday 3-7pm (ET). Now until further notice. This week, Uncle Michael's Topeka Sound System presents "So Shall Dis Dancing" — nonstop positive vibrations from the islands.

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@Parq: BTW, I know have little pots underneath both dripping taps. We have one of those low faucet heads in the kitchen -- what I'd give for a tall gooseneck!-- so can't fit anything substantial there, and the bathroom oval basin is even worse. But I'm collecting for recycling! I foresee lots of pasta in coming days.

Leaps and bounds over mine: Sonny & Cher (though I went for Peter & Gordon and headliners Herman's Hermits ;). S&C got a mention in his speech (or interview?? I'm conflating the info now, and it was the first day it appeared in the NYer I read all that).

They mentioned the new diesel emissions control system to eliminate NOx from diesels. In the presence of a catalyst, Diesel Exhaust Fluid (65% urea, distilled from sheep urine) turns NOx into N² and water. But our catalytic reactor messed up.
I may not like Hall's voice, attitude or fists, but I like his voice and especially his writing. Except this one (Clayton Delaney) and I Love. He wrote much good. But also much schlock. And some schlock au gratin

Alex, I don't think Zimmy did him wrong. He wrote many good, much cheese. And I've promised to be good, but I have experienced him firsthand. Cliff's Notes version: excluding schoolyard bullies, I've had ONE fight in my life and The Storyteller hit me first.

@Lane: In any case, Uncle Michael presented a view that seemed different from what Dylan was suggesting. I am certainly not claiming to know much about Hall on my own.

Tom T. Hall hit you? Wow. I think that is the first thing anyone other than Uncle Michael mentioned about Hall's character.

I was comparing Uncle Michael to a lawyer because a laywer does not need to like everything about his client, or even have to like his client at all. But I think Uncle Michael was presenting the whole thing well.